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To: Henry J Costanzo who wrote (118270)9/23/2011 5:26:43 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad  Read Replies (2) of 213182
 
A "channel" has no particular meaning or significance in Classic TA...

Page 269, Technical Analysis of Stocks, by you know whom...

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Major Trend Channels

We run into another difficulty when we try to draw return lines and construct channes for Major trends in an arithmetic chart. Owning to the marked tendency for prices to fluctuate in ever wider swings (both Intermediate and Minor) as they work upward in a Primary Bull Market, their channel grows progressively broader. The return line does not run parallel to the basic trendline (assuming that we have a good basic trendline to begin with) but diverges from it. Occasionally a stock produces a clear-cut Major channel pattern but the majority do not.

Semi-logarithmic scaling will in many cases correct for the widening channel effect in Bull trends, but then we run into the opposite tendency in Primary Bear Markets and for that neither type of scaling will compensate.
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Now, don't ask me what that means. I ignored it.

Yeah, read the book twice but also don't ask me if I truly understand it. (g)
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